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Chapter 1: An Introduction to m v m v m v m v m v Animal Behavior m v
Multiple Choice Questions m v m v
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Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Identify the conditions required to produce evolutionary change thr
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Learning Objective: 1.1.3 Consider how proximate and ultimate levels of analysis can be us
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ed to p rovide an integrative understanding of the development, mechanism, adaptive value, and
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Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Identify the conditions required to produce evolutionary change t
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Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Identify the conditions required to produce evolutionary change t
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h ro ugh natural selection and examine these conditions using the gene’s eye
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view.
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Animal Behavior, Twelfth Edition mv mv m v
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to m v m v m v m v m v Animal Behavior m v
Multiple Choice Questions m v m v
1. “If female lizards with reddish throats produce more eggs than females with orangish
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tio n of adaptations by natural selection.
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b. is false, because females with orangish throats could still have more offspring tha
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t liv e to reproduce than females with reddish throats.
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c. is false, because there is no guarantee that females with reddish throats are the be
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st fo r the long-term preservation of this species.
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d. could be true or false, because we cannot tell without knowing whether reddish fem
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Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Identify the conditions required to produce evolutionary change thr
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o ugh natural selection and examine these conditions using the gene’s eye vie
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w.
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding m v m v m v
2. The statement “Lemmings disperse from areas of high population density because t
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m h ey inherited this ability from a lemming-
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like ancestor in the past” is a hypothesis about
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a. evolved function. m v
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Learning Objective: 1.1.3 Consider how proximate and ultimate levels of analysis can be us
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ed to p rovide an integrative understanding of the development, mechanism, adaptive value, and
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evoluti on ary history of a behavior.
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding m v m v m v
3. The infanticide hypothesis, which posits that infanticide is a reproductio
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enhancing tactic practiced by males, is called a hypothesis because it
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a. can be proven. m v m v
b. is an explanation based on limited evidence that can be tested.
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c. is mutually exclusive to any other potential explanations.
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d. is a basic principle that can be applied widel
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volved.
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding m v m v m v
4. In order for Darwinian natural selection to cause evolutionary change, a population
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m u st contain individuals that differ hereditarily in some characteristic because
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a. in a population without this kind of variation, the species is doomed to extinction.
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b. when all individuals have the same genes, then all individuals are exactly alike in all
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Answer: d m v
Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Identify the conditions required to produce evolutionary change t
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h ro ugh natural selection and examine these conditions using the gene’s eye
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view.
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5. We observe variation in a population of lizard with respect to how fast individuals
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can ru m v
n. We attempt to select for the ability to run slowly, not quickly. After six generations of
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m sel ective breeding of only the slowest with the slowest, the mean running speed of th
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Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Identify the conditions required to produce evolutionary change t
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h ro ugh natural selection and examine these conditions using the gene’s eye
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view.
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ched. H ere are two questions about this observation:
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y m v to survive?
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